Month: February 2024

How Biden Can Avenge Navalny’s Death

The president cannot allow Russia’s rulers to think that his threats are hollow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/opinion/aleksei-navalny-biden-russia.html?smid=em-share

The Most Important Writing Exercise I’ve Ever Assigned

I ask my writing students to stand in another person’s shoes. They’re finding it harder and harder to do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/opinion/radical-empathy-fiction.html?smid=em-share

Are We in a Productivity Boom? For Clues, Look to 1994

Thirty years ago, the U.S. entered an era of productivity gains that enabled healthy growth. Experts are asking if it could happen again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/business/economy/economy-productivity-increase.html?smid=em-share

How Trump pushed Silicon Valley off the rails

Did tech titans have an option? I thought so.
https://wapo.st/48wjKli

Maybe so, but it was not an unimaginable consequence. French philosopher Paul Virilio has a quote I think about a lot: “When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution. Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.”

Not even the president can bend the internet to his will.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/joe-biden-tiktok-account/677453/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYdkS0qZhr1wt56-6YrZCKQU&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

The Cure for What Ails Our Democracy

We have to get past the idea that political conflicts are fights between good and evil.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/opinion/democracy-good-evil.html?smid=em-share